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...Richard Yao, author of Packaging: Your Key to the Top Law Schools, now gives us a new philosophy: Let's make everybody a lawyer. Or, at the very least, let's get everybody into law school...
...problem with Packaging, however, is that if you really need Yao's advice, your chances of getting accepted to one of his "top-ten" law schools are probably slimmer than his book (127 pages). Packaging is very serious about being remedial. The book is typeset with letters large enough for Dr. Seuss captions. And it is written, according to Yao, "like a good legal memorandum..lean, basic, and in plain English" I don't know about the "legal memorandum" stuff, but Yao isn't kidding about the plain English. A sample: "Misspellings and typos often overlap. It is sometimes hard...
...level of discourse in Packaging gets only slightly more complex. Yao does suggest some good strategies for gearing applications to specific types of law schools, and he also gives some decent advice to "minorities" (a word he inexplicably insists on putting in quotation marks). Yao compiled Packaging, he tells us, by interviewing successful and unsuccessful law school applicants, and by basing "some part of it" on his own experience (he got into "about half" of the law schools to which he applied...
...meat of Packaging is straight out of my eighth-grade Warriner's grammar book. "Use the active voice." "Use parallel construction," and "Use paragraphs as basic building blocks" are some of Yao's rather commonsense suggestions Yao's thesis that most qualified law school applicants don't spend enough time on major mistake." The solution? Packaging of course. But be careful. Yao warns "You are not packaging yourself so that Aunt Molly will hire you to clean her yard once a week, nor are you packaging yourself so that your father will let use his new car." Assuming...
...Peking, Chinese officials privately describe Yao's book as "silly." In the U.S., Chinese embassy officials have gone even further, denouncing the account as "more ridiculous than Hitler's diaries." Curiously, Peking's diplomatic community has shied away from discussions of the book even in private. But the credibility of conspiracy theories cuts two ways: until Peking produces a more satisfactory account of the affair than it has so far offered, accounts like Yao Ming-Le's will continue to draw speculators...